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The Ethics of Aesthetics

By On April 4, 2016

“Ethics and Aesthetics are one” wrote Ludwig Wittgenstein.  And though this famous line invites (probably) misreading, what a lovely line to misread!*  Anyway, here’s a brief video from The School of Life to that effect.  It’s about why Beauty is NOT in the Eyes of the Beholder.

*because I think Wittgenstein’s argument is about the nature of language, logic, and meaning-making and not a statement about beauty itself.  Someone more knowledgable will have to teach you.

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